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Martial arts at Missouri City's Martial Art Fitness Academy is a great workout that will leave you feeling Zen.
If a bite's all you're after, then you'll want to stop by this studio for a delicious fill of their home-cooked food.
This studio is great for families with kids.
Tone your body and strengthen your core with a group kickboxing class.
Learn both offensive and defensive techniques in one of these mixed martial arts classes.
Parking is plentiful, so visitors can feel free to bring their vehicles.

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Sugar Land Gymnastics & Dance's expansive space is a patchwork of tumbling mats, balance beams, uneven bars, and other equipment. It's amidst this colorful collage that kids lay a foundation for lifelong fitness and future sports such as basketball, or basketball with backflips. Students are guided by a knowledgeable team of instructors headed by Executive Director Bryan Kiser, who has more than 25 years of experience with the Men's Junior Olympic gymnastics program, and Mei, the women's coach, whose more than three decades of gymnastics experience includes time as a competitor with the Chinese national gymnastics team. The staff splits kids up by age and skill level for recreational gymnastics, and those who decide to pursue their flips and tumbles more seriously can transition into Sugar Land Gymnastics & Dance's competitive program.
In addition to gymnastics, the staff teaches karate, dance, and cheerleading lessons. Seasoned instructor Bonita Jennings builds coordination and grace, transforming the pitter-patter of little feet into the structured patterns of dance styles such as tap, jazz, ballet, and hip-hop. When classes aren't in session, Sugar Land Gymnastics & Dance hosts birthday parties with activities such as rock-wall climbing and ziplining.

Martial arts at Houston's Martial Arts USA is a great workout that will leave you feeling Zen.
What's a fine studio without fine dining to accompany it? Be sure to pick up a tasty meal when you visit their great restaurant.
Let the kids come too! Little ones love the activities at this studio just as much as their parents do.
Challenge yourself to a cardio kickboxing class and reap the many health and wellness benefits.
These mixed martial arts classes incorporate self-defense, discipline and fitness.
Parking is plentiful, so visitors can feel free to bring their vehicles.

Martial arts at Houston's Hoger Mixed Martial Arts is a great workout that will leave you feeling Zen.
Don't deny your stomach an immaculate meal when you try this studio's restaurant.
Grab the kids when you head to this studio — its family-oriented atmosphere perfect for the whole clan.
Their MMA instructors will leave you breathless and looking like a whole new you.
Sign up for one of these kickboxing classes and burn fat, build muscle and stay learn.
Parking is plentiful, so visitors can feel free to bring their vehicles.

UNITED Tae Kwon Do's group classes aren't really about punching and kicking. Sure, students work to master self-defense techniques, but they also focus on topics such as confidence and respect. The conditioning and reaction drills also help to build lean muscle and serve as an effective form of stress management. In this way, UNITED Tae Kwon Do's sessions benefit all types of students, whether they're kids or adults, beginners or more seasoned martial artists. The trained instructors also teach private lessons that adhere to personal goals, such as preparing a student for an upcoming black belt test.
These programs didn't develop overnight. UNITED Tae Kwon Do has been honing them for more than three decades, long before martial-arts uniforms became a red-carpet fashion trend. The educators have expanded into multiple locations throughout the Houston area and show no signs of stopping.

Martial arts at Houston's Power ATA Martial Arts is a great workout that will leave you feeling Zen.
With food just the way you like it, this studio elevates your restaurant experience just on the level of taste.
Let the kids come too! Little ones love the activities at this studio just as much as their parents do.
Ever wanted to work out with a professional trainer? Set up an appointment with one of the many personal trainers on staff.
You'll be astonished by how fast your fitness changes when you start taking cross fit.
The MMA classes at this establishment include a variety of fighting and self-defense techniques.
Develop kickboxing skills and discipline during one of these high-intensity kickboxing classes.
Parking is plentiful, so visitors can feel free to bring their vehicles.

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If stage actors actually punched and kicked their way through action sequences every night, they’d likely be too concussed to remember their lines. So it’s no surprise that directors and choreographers have come up with several ways to stage a convincing battle. Some of these date back to Shakespeare’s time, while others came about only after centuries of painful innovation. Here are four things to keep in mind while watching the actors beat each other up:1. People have been faux fighting since antiquity.Shakespeare loved a good fight scene, but the Bard was far from the first to stage combat sequences for entertainment. One much older tradition, Japanese Kabuki theater, remains popular today and uses fight-scene techniques known as tachimawari, mimicking the fast-paced movements of samurai through acrobatics and martial artistry.2. You're watching a magic show.Fight director and movement specialist Meron Langsner put it aptly in a 2009 discussion with Tufts University colleagues when he called stage combat "a combination of ballroom dancing and sleight of hand," continuing, "I can make it look like one actor kicked another actor in the head when they're standing 6 or 7 feet apart.”It’s easy for film editors to make a slow-motion slap look as if it were performed in real time, but onstage it’s a matter of timing, balance, and eye contact. During a slapping scene, the slapper hits the victim on the fleshy part of the cheek and quickly pulls away to create the illusion of a full-fledged smack without any lasting damage. A “knap,” the sound of one body part hitting another, can be added in by either actor or a third party offstage to enhance the reality of the situation.3. Actors work with each other, not against each other.There’s a safe technique for every hair pull, groin kick, punch, or noogie you see onstage, and it’s up to the actors to trust each other enough to deploy these methods correctly. During a fight scene, if someone has forgotten the choreography, combatants will often meet in a grappling stance where they can speak freely to each other without the audience hearing. From there, they can agree on the next move or end the fight without spectators being any the wiser.4. For any fight director, safety is the first priority.And for good reason. There are countless cautionary tales of combat gone wrong—from live guns being mistaken for props to faulty aerial rigging—but almost all are avoidable when proper precautions are taken.

Kickboxing isn’t just for karate experts and movie stars anymore. Today, anyone can take a fitness class on the martial art, or even train up to begin their competitive MMA career. Whether you’re interested in a cardio workout or some serious self-defense moves, here are five facts about kickboxing to read before you beat up some bags. 1. Kickboxing is many disciplines in one. It incorporates moves and techniques from different martial arts, so punches, kicks, elbows, clinches, and takedowns might all be fair game, depending on the subset of kickboxing being practiced. It remains a flexible sport, with styles varying widely among martial-arts purists, boxers, and fighters who work to cultivate a unique approach.2. Its versatility translates well to fitness.Kickboxing balances upper- and lower-body flexibility with cardiovascular exercise, making for an effective full-body workout. Practitioners also get the benefit of learning self-defense techniques, getting a leg up on their peers who only know how to chuck a treadmill at an attacker. 3. It's not that old.Kickboxing is quite popular in Thailand, which is also home to Muay Thai—a form of boxing, practiced as a regulated sport since the late 19th century, in which fighters don gloves and other pads. In the early 1960s, a Japanese karate promoter became infatuated with Muay Thai—and particularly the full-contact striking that's not allowed in karate—and saw an opportunity to blend the styles. He prepared karate fighters to take on Muay Thai specialists, and the competition was fierce enough to inspire the birth of kickboxing as an organized sport in 1966. 4. The roundhouse is only one of many possible kicks.Most kickboxers will be familiar with staples such as front kicks, side kicks, and the famous roundhouse. But there are other, advanced kicks that are difficult to master, such as hook kicks, crescent kicks, axe kicks, and spinning back kicks. It’s important to note which techniques are allowed if you’re going into a competition, as certain styles (including American kickboxing) do not allow kicking below the waist. 5. If you get good enough at kickboxing, you’re entitled to an awesome nickname.The best kickboxers tend to have the best stage names. For proof, just look at Bill “Superfoot” Wallace, Remy “The Flying Gentleman” Bonjasky, and Peter Aerts, known as “The Dutch Lumberjack” for his brutal high kicks. Learn about other intense workouts:CrossFit, DecodedCrossFit trainer Brendan Ziegler explains some of the workout’s out-there terminology.Five Things to Know About TrampoliningDon't even think about trying to flip until you read these trampolining tips from Team USA's Susan Jacobson.